«Saberes excéntricos». ¿Más allá de mi cuerpo? Capitalismo, medicina racial y feminismo excéntrico

Bentouhami Hourya

doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1208

“Ex-centric Knowledges”. Beyond my body? Capitalism, racial medicine and ex-centric feminism

Authors

Bentouhami Hourya Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

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Abstract

Standpoint feminist epistemology allows us to focus on the production of thought departing from the stories told by first order affected subjects about their life experiences. Yet, at the same time, this situated knowledge about the world allows for an ‘exit from oneself ’, giving rise to a feminism we call ‘ex-centric’, meaning that it is produced at the margins of an institutional and hegemonic feminism which makes invisible other ways—those of subaltern women—of thinking about the relation to one’s own body. This ex-centric feminism does not only take hold of the specificity of capitalism, racism, and patriarchal logic according to which power is accumulated at the expense of subaltern women, but also shows us how to look from another perspective at women’s agency from the Global South.

Keywords

feminism, ex-centric, body, Global South, subalternity

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Author Biography

Bentouhami Hourya, Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

Hourya Bentouhami was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from the University Paris VII-Denis Diderot in 2009 with a dissertation on non-violence and civil disobedience as deconstruction and political refoundation. She currently teaches at ESPE, at Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès. Her research centers on social and political philosophy, race critical theory, and feminist critical theory. She belongs to the ERRAPHIS platform, is a member of the editing committee of Actuel Marx, and a member of the reading committee at CSS (Comment S’en Sortir); an international journal of feminist philosophy and queer theory. She is co-director with Stéphanie Mulot of the Memories of slavery in the Americas program at LabEx, Structuration des Mondes Sociaux, in Toulouse. Her most recent publication is Raza, cultura, identidades. Un enfoque feminista y poscolonial (2017), Buenos Aires, Prometeo.